Flashcards in Forgetting Deck (8)
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Decay
Memory becomes a eroded because we have not used it for a while.
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Displacement
Items are pushed out of memory by other items; applies only to short-term memory and sensory memory, not long-term memory.
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Primacy effect
Higher likelihood of remembering earlier rather than later information.
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Recency effect
Higher likelihood of remembering information presented at the end of a task.
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Reconstructive nature of memory
Remembering by combining elements of experience with existing knowledge; often through use of schemas, organize knowledge structures stored in memory that are used to guide comprehension and memory.
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Interference in long-term memory
Can occur via proactive interference, early learning disrupt later learning, or retroactive interference, later learning disrupts earlier learning.
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Anterograde amnesia
Patient cannot form new memories after brain injury.
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